Singularity and the future of the Internet

The singularity is a concept proposed by American scientist ﹑ Futurist Kurzweil. In his opinion, computer-represented AI will surpass human intelligence at some stage. And he defined the singularity as 2045, and this singularity is certainly what most of the time and the years will experience. Looking forward to that era, generation and the early has become a group of old people, but can witness this singular point, how can not let people excited! Nanotechnology and ﹑ Biotechnology and artificial intelligence will come together at a certain stage, and ultimately change human society. And artificial intelligence will eventually unite with the human body, so that the human body's ability greatly improved. Perhaps the future human body evolution space will be very small, and the human body's potential will be greatly stimulated by artificial intelligence. The author thinks that these forecasts have already appeared in the clue now, if the political ﹑ culture and the human body own limitation, certainly all have the possibility of realization.

Many of Kurzweil's predictions have been confirmed, and he is not a plausible futurist. America always produces a lot of futurists who love to predict the future, but it is admirable that these predictions are not entirely imaginative, but based on the logic of reality, based on deep insights into technology and human nature, such as Negroponte and Kurzweil, many of them become reality. Most of the books published by Kurzweil have Chinese translations in the country. For example, "The future of the Soul Machine" ﹑ "How to create thinking" and "singularity". Thanks to his outstanding ability to think and innovate, he was rewarded twice by the President of the United States and became the engineering director of Google.

Born in the present age, there is no doubt that exciting, a variety of new technologies emerge. Although the current technology does not seem to be like electricity or water vapor as a radical change in human society, but a variety of small technological advances have been rapidly applied to life as the basic technology. Around this point Kurzweil the idea of exponential progress, which he believes will make rapid progress at some stage. Technological advances will dramatically change life.

Now internet companies are keen to carry out some public activities around technological progress. Such as Tencent's we Congress, Baidu Baidu big talk and so on. Baidu will even invite America's odd point University to start classes in China, which is expensive. On the one hand, these internet companies are now very tyrants, through these activities can create a technical culture, to enhance the brand image of enterprises, expand the social discourse, of course, can also publicize their technical progress. But there are some topics that don't seem to have anything to do with the Internet, such as biotechnology, advanced manufacturing technology, and so on. So the question is, why are the technologies that don't seem to be relevant to the Internet appear in the meetings that the Internet companies are reporting?

The author believes that internet companies will be able to lead the singularity of the pioneer, of course, the future of the company's ecology will be diversified, some small companies will become the pioneer of technology, but there is no doubt that nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, these advanced technologies will appear in a place at the point of convergence, Internet companies will play an important role in this gathering point.

Around the history of human technological progress, no doubt the globalization of traffic and energy or dynamic innovation is the most important step in technological progress. The invention of the steam engine and electric power has replaced the human body's biological power, greatly extending the human organ potential, and the invention of airplanes and automobiles has reconstructed the relationship between man and time or space, and the scope of activity is greatly enlarged. And the Internet is the essence of human technology progress, is at the same time in the power and transport to redefine the human. The computer becomes the bottom technology, makes the machine's ability greatly enhances, does not need to explain to see each kind of factory computer to play the role to be able to understand, but the Internet causes the computer to connect together, undoubtedly is greatly extends the human body's ability; But complete the past traffic globalization can not be done. Any one event can be spread around the world in an instant, the earth becomes a global village, it is undoubtedly the role of the Internet. And the emergence of the future technology singularity, the biggest core is still the human body function greatly enhanced, will be in the intelligence and human potential to redefine the human. This is the same as the principle of the technological revolution of mankind, and the transformation of the human body is the same as the Internet. It can be imagined that the emergence of singularities and the Internet will have a great relationship. Of course, the mobile Internet may have become the past, but it has become the interconnection of things.

Both nanotechnology and artificial intelligence have emerged in the present. Baidu has invested a lot of energy in artificial intelligence to replicate the workings of the human brain by searching for technology that makes computers more human-literate. And nanotechnology will make the future of human society will be distributed manufacturing and personalized production of the wave. Biotechnology will make technology and the human body better integrated into everything. These are inseparable from the Internet, the Internet will be committed to shorten the body and the connection between the object, enhance the body function. No matter what the future technology is inseparable from the various objects and human connections, and the Internet will become the singularity of the era of the underlying technology.

The author believes that the internet and singularity have a puzzled relationship. But the singularity is not only a technical and economic problem, but also a cultural and ethical issue. This should not be just a commercial company to operate, as a major problem affecting human society, need to join in all aspects of the discussion, thinking about the direction of human evolution.